Text all your friends immediately and tell them you’re throwing a cocktail party. With this easy menu, it’s possible to host a festive one just a few days from now without breaking a sweat. The key is to lean on simple sips and bites whose components can be made ahead or even bought straight from the store. That makes the last-minute scramble not much of a scramble at all.
This laid-back menu starts with a refreshing rhubarb cocktail that’s sure to be a crowd-pleaser (especially because it can also be made as a mocktail). Snacks like cheesy polenta bites, spicy carrot hummus, and hearty beef tenderloin sliders are sure to keep your friends satiated, and there are a few sweet treats to round out the occasion. There’s no better excuse to host a gathering than this one.
Here’s a well-known truth that we tend to ignore anyway: There’s no better way to please a crowd and keep your cool than with a spread of tried-and-true favorites. Yes, there are times to try out that new recipe you’ve been ogling, but a cocktail party is not one of them.
With these 17 essential appetizers, from marinated olives to bacon-wrapped dates to cheese puffs, you can rest easy knowing that your friends will gobble them up. Bonus: They’re also easy to pull together without killing your food budget.
Calling all coconut-lovers! If you’re a looking for a special dessert for this weekend’s festivities, this coconut poke cake won’t let you down. With a coconut cake base, homemade coconut pudding (featuring homemade coconut cream!), and shredded coconut over a layer of fluffy white frosting, it’s coconut sweetness through and through. It’s also the perfect make-ahead dessert, as the cake really needs plenty of time for the pudding to permeate, flavor, and tenderize the cake — a good 24 hours is ideal. So make this today, and tomorrow you’ll be cutting squares of tender coconut cake.
When it’s time to buy a new fridge, it can feel like there are about a thousand options — single door, French doors, freezer on the top, freezer on the bottom, stainless steel or not. The list goes on, but luckily we’re here to break it all down for you, including one more feature you probably didn’t even know existed before you started your refrigerator research.
Here’s the question: Should you get a counter-depth or a standard-depth fridge? The answer, of course, is that it depends.
This cake might look the most simple take on our one-bowl vanilla cake, but it has a delicious, ingenious tip that sets it apart from any other cake: The subtly sweet frosting is brightened with Greek yogurt. That’s right, part of the butter in the classic American-style buttercream is replaced with Greek yogurt for a naked cake that is more flavorful than a fully frosted cake any day.
We’re all about to partake in some serious ice cream eating. Whether you have an ice cream truck that drives through your neighborhood or you have a local scoop shop that you like to hit up on a weekly basis, we’re guessing you’re going to be doing some at-home indulging too. (Summer is hot!)
If you don’t want to work too hard to get those pretty, perfectly rounded scoops from the carton (we don’t blame you!), you’re going to need the right tool.
Here are our five ice cream scoops that will get the job done.
You might imagine the life of a Kitchn editor is all fancy sea salts and expensive olive oils or that we have unlimited grocery budgets, but like everyone else we have to choose where to save and when to splurge every week as we feed ourselves and our families.
Here are six of our editors’ favorite ingredients to splurge on for better everyday meals.
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